Honouring pioneers: The AILU Award
This award is made annually to recognise an individual who has made an outstanding lifetime contribution to the industrial use of lasers in the UK.
Encourage the UK´s young Engineers: The AILU Young UK Laser Engineer's Prize
The Prize is designed to help encourage young people in the UK to develop their interests in laser applications. It is awarded to an individual under 30 years of age, for a significant piece of work. The work must be conducted in the UK and have real or potential economic gain for the parent organisation and preferably for the wider industrial laser user community.
The 2010 AILU Award is presented to Professor David Payne (left)
The 2010 YOUNG UK ENGINEER'S PRIZE to Jonathan Blackburn (left)